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2 Education and Capacity Building
2 Education and Capacity Building
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. Building sustainable mindsets begins at a young age, but there is little effort at the K-12 and university levels to apply inquiry-based learning to help students 1 In 2022, Brookings and the UN Foundation released The State of Sustainable Development Goals in the United States as a shadow VNR, calling for stronger U.S.
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. She pointed to SDG Target 4.7, which states that "by 2030, ensure all students acquire knowledge and skills needed to promote sustainable development." Achievement of this goal requires making complex subjects understandable, building mindsets for long-term engagement, changing abstract SDGs into locally relevant issues, and taking action for change -- and engaging children at a young age.
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Developing Sustainability Mindsets In 2016, SSEC intentionally aligned its work with the United Nations Sustain able Development Goals (SDGs) , creating the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals project in collaboration with the InterAcademy Partnership to help young people "discover, understand, [and]
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• Examine issues relating to ensuring diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in K-12 STEM education as well as leveling the playing field in access to K-12 education across school districts in the United States. • Examine how sustainability education programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels can prepare all students, regardless of major, to contribute to advancing a post-2030 agenda for sustainable development, as well as identify best practices in field building for sustainable development at the undergraduate and graduate levels that will be important for research and education in moving that agenda forward.
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since it was founded in the early 2000s. Internal studies in recent years, including the 2017 "Pittsburgh to Paris: Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Carnegie Mellon University" and a 2019 Task Force on Campus Climate, prompted the Sustainability Initiative.
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POSSIBLE ACTIONABLE STEPS FOR EDUCATION AND CAPACITY BUILDING Possible actionable steps for undertaking inquiry-based education initiatives and capacity-building partnerships essential to making progress on the SDGs at the local, national, and global levels are as follows: • University leaders could undertake initiatives to assist faculty and stu dents in developing VURs to evaluate needs and prioritization among
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• Cities and school districts could initiate and support programs at the local K-12 level for students to undertake local investigations in their communities on the SDGs across diverse contexts; define and imple ment frameworks for sustainable development; and connect their local issues to global issues, such as the Smithsonian Science for Global Goals (O'Donnell, 2022)
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